No. No, it really doesn't. I mean, sure, let's elect the Lords. But we'll still get cokeheads who pay for sex.

I didn’t approach R.D. Wingfield’s DI Jack Frost series with any great enthusiasm. I’d seen enough of ITV’s Sunday night schedule-filler, with David Jason in the title role, to assume it would be lightweight, middlebrow, plodding fare, with signposted comic (…)

Dan Hodges at his savage best > The Labour party is a joke. We should stop taking it seriously

The parallels between this summer’s Labour leadership contest meltdown and the battle for the party’s soul in the early 1980s are too close to swat away as ahistorical journalese. Here, for example, is an excerpt from Graham Stewart’s terrific book, (…)